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Crimes and Mercies: The Fate of German Civilians Under Allied Occupation, 1944-1950 Paperback – October 30, 2007
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More than 9 million Germans died as a result of deliberate Allied starvation and expulsion policies after World War II―one quarter of the country was annexed, and about 15 million people expelled in the largest act of ethnic cleansing the world has ever known. Over 2 million of these alone, including countless children, died on the road or in concentration camps in Poland and elsewhere. That these deaths occurred at all is still being denied by Western governments.
At the same time, Herbert Hoover and Canadian Prime Minister MacKenzie King created the largest charity in history, a food-aid program that saved an estimated 800 million lives during three years of global struggle against post–World War II famine―a program they had to struggle for years to make accessible to the German people, who had been excluded from it as a matter of official Allied policy.
Never before had such revenge been known. Never before had such compassion been shown. The first English-speaking writer to gain access to the newly opened KGB archives in Moscow and to recently declassified information from the renowned Hoover Institution in California, James Bacque tells the extraordinary story of what happened to these people and why.
Revised and updated for this new edition, bestseller Crimes and Mercies was first published by Little, Brown in the U.K. in 1997.
- Print length320 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherTalonbooks
- Publication dateOctober 30, 2007
- Dimensions5.98 x 0.94 x 9 inches
- ISBN-100889225672
- ISBN-13978-0889225671
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“A scholar of great courage and perseverance who deserves to be heard.”
― Dr. Dwight D. Murphy
About the Author
James Bacque was a novelist, book editor, essayist, and historian whose work has helped raise awareness in human rights issues associated with war crimes, particularly spurring debate on and research into the treatment of German POWs at the end of World War II.
Bacque was the founding partner and president of new press book publishers from 1969–1975. He also worked as a reporter for the Stratford Beacon-Herald; as an assistant editor for Saturday Night magazine and for Canadian Homes magazine; and as an editor for Macmillan of Canada and for Seal Books.
His fiction titles include The Lonely Ones, 1969 (Big Lonely in the paperback edition, 1970); A Man of Talent, 1972; Creation (with Robert Kroetsch and Pierre Gravel), 1972; The Queen Comes to Minnicog, 1979; and Our Fathers’ War, 2006.
His history titles include Crimes and Mercies, which was an immediate bestseller when first released in the U.K. by Little, Brown, and Other Losses, which has been published in Canada, the U.K., the U.S., Germany, Japan, Italy, Turkey, Portugal, Korea, and Hungary.
Bacque was the subject of a one-hour BBC TV documentary in 1990 and has also been featured in four TV documentaries in France, Germany, and Canada. He has appeared on the CBS Evening News; Good Morning America; and CBC TV’s The Journal.
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- Publisher : Talonbooks
- Publication date : October 30, 2007
- Edition : Revised
- Language : English
- Print length : 320 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0889225672
- ISBN-13 : 978-0889225671
- Item Weight : 15.2 ounces
- Dimensions : 5.98 x 0.94 x 9 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #325,383 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #127 in Disaster Relief (Books)
- #596 in German History (Books)
- #2,127 in World War II History (Books)
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